Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, the Dallas Buyers Club actor said costume designers on the forthcoming Batman vs Superman movie had radically revised the togs worn by the caped crusader. "I've seen the suit," she said. "[It's] unbelievably cool. It's a total reinvention, it looks great."

Director Kevin Smith, who is one of Affleck's closest friends, has previously revealed the new Batsuit marks a sea change from previous big screen iterations. He said on his podcast, Hollywood Babble-On: "You have not seen this costume in film before. Because every other movie has done this Matrix, X-Men black armour thing. There wasn't a single nipple on this fricking suit."

Man of Steel 2, the follow-up to last summer's Superman reboot Man of Steel, was pushed back by nine months to May 2016 over the weekend. Reports suggest the delay may be for financial reasons, with the US blog ComicBookMovie.com hinting at concern over the depiction of Wonder Woman's home, Paradise Island (aka Themyscira). "Executives are debating whether to feature the island, which would require massive VFX, or merely referencing it," the blog reported.